Page 30 of Monster's Pet

I removed the spell from my vision and led him through the tables to where a large group had converged. “Have they woken the familiars up yet? I thought the teachers were waiting to see the effects of the magical blanket first,” I asked.

“I haven’t heard. Are Lilia’s dragons still asleep in your room?”

“You know I’ve been with you pretty much every second of the day and night,” I said, pushing past a few students. “Excuse me,” I added belatedly.

Sure enough, sitting on the edge of a table was our missing Moonbeam. Her white coat was shimmering slightly, hints of purple showing under the bright lights overhead.

“There you are, you scamp,” Aiden said, scooping her up. “Did you miss us while we were in class?”

Moonbeam purred so loudly that I could hear her and stretched up, licking Aiden’s chin with her tiny pink tongue.

“How did you get out, missy?” I asked her, rubbing my hand over her ears. “Now you’re going to have to wait for your dinner, because Aiden and I are hungry for ours.”

“I’ll go give her to Rhiannon and then we can get our trays,” Aiden said. “Go get in line.”

“Sir, yes sir!” I said, snapping him a salute.

He grinned back at me. “If only you were so obedient all the time,” he teased.

I flushed and headed for the food, ignoring the students around us.

Aiden joined me before I had moved far down the line. “Rhiannon was happy to look after her for us, and Moonbeam went to her easily enough. Do you think someone let her out?”

I thought about his question for a moment. “If they did, why did they leave her alone? Maybe someone broke into your room to take something else and Moonbeam escaped when they opened the door?”

“I don’t have anything of value,” Aiden said, a furrow in his brow. “And nothing looked out of place until we started moving stuff around.”

“I guess you didn’t lock the door.”

“But how would Moonbeam have opened it? The doors swing inward. It doesn’t make sense.”

“Maybe you didn’t close it fully, and it swung in.” I shrugged. “No harm, no foul, in this case.”

“I suppose.” Aiden looked concerned. “Maybe you should stay in your room for the next few nights, just in case.”

“It’s sweet that you think I can’t take care of myself,” I said, patting his chest.

“Of course you can,” Aiden said vehemently. “But I would rather not worry about you, too.”

“The only thing you have to worry about, with regard to me, is when you’re going to fuck me after you take this plug out of my ass,” I whispered to him.

His eyes darkened and a muscle twitched in his jaw when he clenched it. “You are a brat.”

“So you’ve told me, multiple times,” I sassed back. I took a plate of spaghetti from the warming counter. “Remember, I’ve got nothing on under this skirt. Are you going to do something about that?”

“You are playing with fire, missy,” Aiden growled, his knuckles turning white from how hard he gripped his tray.

I chuckled at his pun. “You think you’re a big, bad monster, but you’re really a softy,” I teased. “What are you going to do about it? You shouldn’t be using extra magic right now, so you can’t make us invisible to do whatever you want to me in the middle of the cafeteria. You don’t want other men seeing me naked or what I look like when I come.”

“I should fuck you in a supply closet,” Aiden threatened. “Make you walk back out here with my cum dripping down your legs. Every beast and witch in the room would scent me on you. Is that what you’re aiming for?”

That shouldn’t turn me on as much as it does.

I squeezed my thighs together, trying to stave off the throbbing in my core. “We can’t just leave Moonbeam with Rhiannon,” I said weakly. “It’s not fair to her.”

“Then maybe you should stop tempting me and go sit down.” Aiden’s nostrils flared, smelling my arousal, and he groaned. “God, woman. Every beast is going to pant after that scent when you walk by them.”

“And yet, they can’t have me,” I said. “You’d better hurry after me to keep them away.” I grabbed a pudding and spun, heading back to our table.

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